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strategic enrollment management

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Indicators of a Resilient Framework

The more highly structured a framework, the more decision-approval and accountability is transparent, and data is evident in proposal development and assessment. An institution with a SEM plan can be responsive regardless of framework.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Framework Challenges & Knowing when to Restructure

When SEM becomes a struggle beyond a single process, or when multiple targets seem unachievable, the framework may no longer be able to bear the weight the institution requires.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Uniting Academics and Administration in SEM Frameworks

Many post-secondary institutions struggle with bridging communication and decision-making between the Academic Units and Financial or Administrative perspectives. SEM plans are tools to align perspectives and priorities, and frameworks provide the structure for building together.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: An Introduction to SEM Frameworks & Why They Matter

As the car picked up speed and passed the other, I couldn’t help but see the parallels with Strategic Enrolment Management planning and structure theory in higher education. A SEM plan is built appropriately for its frame, supported by an effective pit crew, and steered by a skilled driver.

Canada Considering Cap on International Enrolments. What's the Impact?

If I were a Provost, I'd be asking my Institutional Research team to game out what these scenarios might look like compared to our current plans. Here's what we were expecting at Plaid University:

Why We Built Plaid Forecast

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Is Enrolment Forecasting Cooperative or Collaborative?

Institutional Researchers can unintentionally end up as gatekeepers to the collaborative enrolment forecasting model. They've built it by hand, using tools and skills available to them at the time, but the models aren't built for scale. Plaid Forecast is.

How Metadata Management Tools Support SEM

Implementing a metadata management tool solves the problem of data analysis requiring perusing thousands of fields, hundreds of tables and dashboards, and speaking with different teams to pin down definitions and data origins that live in the mind of a specific person.

How Data Governance Supports SEM

Building transparency in SEM and enrolment forecasting is key to ensuring alignment and collaboration between your stakeholders, and data governance helps to support this transparency while keeping data safe and secure.

Enrolment Forecasting in Support of SEM

SEM prompts consideration of the many variables, both academic and administrative, that impact a student’s experience, progress, and future enrolment. Data, or the lack thereof, influences an institution's ability to define what future student populations may look like.